María and Fashion 1914-2024 at the Palacio de Hierro

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To become a legend, a woman must show confidence, a powerful look, impressive beauty, intelligence, elegance, and much more. Few Mexican women, or perhaps no other, have achieved it like María Félix. On the 110th anniversary of this legend, the Palacio de Hierro and the Estate of María Félix, through the María Félix Social Promotion and the collaboration of private collectors, present for the first time the exhibition Maria and Fashion 1914-2024, available until April 29 on the ground floor of El Palacio de los Palacios.

The exhibition is a journey through the world of high fashion, its cinematographic aspect, its mania for antique textiles, its unsuspected ethnic collections, and its unimaginable and, until now, unknown contributions to the world of fashion.

The impressive exhibition shares pieces curated by Hanzel Ortegón, member of the Estate of María Felix, coordinated by Rodrigo Flores, Director of Experiences at El Palacio de Hierro, and museography by m+a+p.

Maria and Fashion 1914-2024 is the perfect setting that glorifies the different facets of the life of the representative icon of national culture, María Félix.

La Doña, as she was known for her lordship and panache, was close to houses such as Christian Dior, Hèrmes, Gucci, or Cartier. She quickly understood from her first participation on the film screen that her job would be to be beautiful. From that moment on, she showed herself to be Beauty with wits. No wonder why she fought against her first director and demanded her garments would be from the most exclusive and quality place possible. It was in 1942 when the legendary relationship between El Palacio de Hierro and her began.

Celebrated today through this exhibition, the luxury department store in Mexico pays tribute to her.

In 1984, the Chamber of the Italian Fashion Industry named María Félix as the Best Dressed Woman globally. Such a distinction would not be gratuitous in the face of a personality who crossed the oceans with thirty suitcases, a personal couturier, a hairdresser, a secretary, a Cadillac, and the Child a briefcase that she took care of with care because she carried her jewelry in it, but the popular imagination thought that due to her attachment, the vampire of the big screen was carrying the remains of a dead son.

Fashion in Cinema

Forty-seven were the film productions in which María Félix was the protagonist after her chance discovery by Engineer Fernando Palacios, as she admired an antique sideboard. After the photogenic tests carried out by Gabriel Figueroa, diction classes arrived to correct his marked stutter and, little by little, image styling in which Armando Valdés Peza would be her star benefactor. It was 1943 when luck crossed her way. And she grabbed it (as she used to say) when she was given her first opportunity under the direction of Miguel Zacarías in the film El Peñón de las Ánimas, from which her demanding character shone, achieving a leading debut, an unprecedented salary, and the opportunity to choose her costumes at El Palacio de Hierro.

OLD COLLECTIONS

Once, La Doña stated, Where the antiques are I am, making a clear allusion to her passion for this type of thing. Testimony of this was the vast environments in which life took place between the distant latitudes of their homes: Paris, Mexico City, and Cuernavaca. She displayed this magnificence in print and electronic media, even moving her entire house to a television program to feel comfortable during an interview.

During the inauguration of this exhibition inside El Palacio de Hierro Polanco on April 3, more than 300 attendees and special guests gathered around the exhibition of pieces belonging to the icon and legend, reference of elegance and style María Félix with the occasion of the 110 years of his birth.

Walter López Rivera, CEO of State of María Félix, Rodrigo Flores, Director of Experiences, and Hanzel Ortegón, curator and member of State of María Félix, was in charge of cutting the inaugural ribbon of the exhibition “Maria and Fashion 1914-2024”. In addition, attendees enjoyed the world premiere of the piece “Mexican of the World: Symphonic Portrait of María Félix,” authored by composer Alonso J. Burgos, which the orchestra played for all the guests.

It is an experience that you cannot miss during April. If you are passionate about fashion and the diva of Mexican cinema, María Felix.